We took the kids trick-or-treating up and down Fort Wayne and Main Streets in town tonight. Alex was a ninja, and Missy was Cleopatra. We met up with some friends of theirs, and everyone had quite a haul. We just carved jack-o-lanterns the other day; Missy made one that looks like a moose, including the antlers. The kids raked leaves (there are a lot of leaves) into piles and jumped in them a couple days ago too. Must be fall!

Popcorn orders are all in...and the Cub Scouts have sold a grand total of $5944! Not as good as last year but still not bad.

At the Cubs Scouts pack meeting tonight we had all the boys compete for the last half hour in an epic extravaganza of engineering, or at least that's what I'd hoped. It didn't work out as well as I thought it would. Marshmallows and toothpicks, to build the longest, highest, or biggest bridge/tower/castle/structure they could, broken down by dens. Well, the marshmallows weren't quite rigid enough for it, so the buildings all kind of...drooped...but the kids had fun anyway, I think. There was some success at least. But I need to figure out something better.

First Fridays tonight! The Cub Scouts set up a booth to sell popcorn and cotton candy. We should have skipped the popcorn. We didn't seem to have much of what the crowds wanted, if there were crowds, which there weren't. It was cold and rainy, which kept people away I assume, and we didn't have much traffic. We also thought afterwards that we should have had some ready-made popcorn to sell, instead of just the microwave popcorn boxes. We hardly sold any popcorn at all. However, cotton candy went really briskly, and we wound up having a profit of $162 from the evening. Not bad after all!